# New Release - Alpha v0.0.19

## Date: 2024-02-22

Hello everyone, I have uploaded a new version of Thralnor with the following adjustments.

## Gameplay Updates

**Day/Night Cycle**:

- Adjusted brightness minimum to be 25% light instead of previous 10% light.

**General**:

- Fixed issue with projectiles not spawning appropriately.

- Made it so pressing the ESC button will bring up the menu on the right side, alongside it's additional functionality that clears targets and closes any open UI windows.

- Fixed issue where some sprites not showing or showing as white boxes.

- Removed the milliseconds precision showing on remaining buff time labels.

- Fixed issue where chatting in local would cause issues.

**Items**

- Fixed issue where rarities and affixes applying to incorrect item types.

- Arrows now apply bonus min and max damage depending on the arrow.

- Added Starter Health and Mana potions that can't be sold to the store to help prevent new players selling by accident.

- Changed the amount of starter potions given to new player from 100 to 250.

- Changed the cooldown category of Mana Potions so they have their own.

**Item Detail**:

- Adjusted how damage is displayed for equipment items.

**Monsters**:

- Change the name of Skeleton Warrior to Skeleton Knight.

- Added new monster Orc Enforcer to the Orc Encampment area.

**Map**:

- In addition to the current interval for map position updates, monsters should also update on the map when they move randomly and a player is near them.

**Navigation**:

- Moved the navigation window to show outside of the full screen map window.

- Added an option to resume navigation if paused.

**Player Detail**:

- Fixed issue where rarity showing incorrectly on Tools in certain scenario.

**Quests**:

- Changed the initial quest rewards when accepting a quest to allow for multiple rewards.

- Ensured all appropriate beginner quests provide initial quest rewards. For example, Forging - Beginner will give you a Copper Mallet when accepting the quest.

- Changed the Bows - Beginner quest to give arrows as well as a bow.

- Fixed issue where quest counts not updated after monster slain.

- Changed the Lumberjacking quest images to show the tree needed to acquire the logs.

- Changed the Mining quest images to show the ore vein needed to acquire the ores.

- Added Expert tier trade skill quests for Alchemy, Carpentry, Forging, Gathering, Mining and Smelting. In the future, Sawing/Lumberjacking will have variants as well once we place new tree types.

- Added Expert tier weapon mastery quests for Axes, Blunts, Polearms and Swords.

- Added Advanced tier weapon mastery quests for Bows.

- Made it so the Complete/Navigate button in the Quest Log allows interaction depending on if the quest can be completed or has a navigation destination.

**Skills**:

- Implemented an impactful change that adds the concept of allowing affixes to increase the total level of a skill temporarily while an item is equipped. This should affect nearly all places that use the skill level in calculations. The change was needed to support the new tool affix that increases a tool skill's total level. In the future, I will add affixes that can increase other skill levels too.

- On the skills window, if a skill level is increased by an affix, it will show in green.

**Title Screen**:

- When entering username/password combination, can now press the Enter button to submit.

**Tools**:

- Added tools to drop tables for each tier starting at Tier 2 dropping Copper tools. This is to support the new affixes added to the tools.

- Added affixes to tools based on rarity within these possible options: Bonus Resources, Bonus Tool Skill Experience, Increased Success Chance, Bonus Tool Skill Levels, Bonus Cast Time Reduction.

Athacus